housewife
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Hathaway can handle anything, from a despondent housewife to a rifle-toting badass, but I’ve never seen her tasked to do both in a film this brisk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But housewife Nelly Vega believes Fujimori "is going to lead us to something better."
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
"The loss of the leader is heavier than losing our parents," Hoda, a 35-year-old housewife, told AFP news agency.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
In 1899 Kate Chopin’s novel “The Awakening,” about a mutineering New Orleans housewife, challenged conventions of marriage and motherhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“I’m afraid,” says local housewife Amelia Lopez Gamboa, who corrals her family inside her one-room brick house and bars the door.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Steinem spoke explicitly about pushing the women’s movement beyond its initial concerns—essentially, the benumbed, unfulfilled flourishing of white middle-class housewives like her own mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Tradwife content whitewashes history, but an honest look shows that contempt for housewives was a widespread theme in the past.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
German defence giant Rheinmetall on Sunday sought to smooth over a row caused by comments from its boss comparing Ukrainian factories producing drones to "housewives" making weapons in their kitchens.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
Britain's first Winter Olympics gold in 18 years had been won by a group of Scottish housewives in an odd little sport.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
He sold milk door-to-door to housewives, straight from a cow.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
